Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Past blast

For whatever reason - my guess is sheer dumb nostalgia on its twentieth anniversary - the New York Daily News has brought back its 1996 review of Happy Gilmore.

The movie did decent box office but was routine and mostly forgettable. Happy Gilmore's one enduring claim to fame is the highlarious duke-out between star Adam Sandler and The Price is Right legend Bob Barker on a golf course. The Daily News review singles out the scene for its highest praise, as you would expect. "The funniest sequence finds Happy paired in a celebrity tournament with game-show host Bob Barker, who turns out, hilariously, to be more than a match for Happy, physically and linguistically."

Syndicated game show ratings

GSN and Buzzr schedules

This blog's reason for existence

From the most brilliant, insightful and all-round swell Game Show Forum thread ever created:

I'm going to take the Abell approach here...

You're going to find that doesn't work well here, which is one of the reasons Mr. Abell took his business elsewhere.

Legalities and technicalities

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